Sexual Addiction:Strength/Hope/Recovery

Online support and connection are available for those who are struggling with sex and addiction, paired substance/sex addiction, love addiction and other relationship issues on www.sexandrelationshiphealing.com. Addicts and loved ones of these can also get the guidance they need from experts like Dr. Rob Weiss and Dr. David Fawcett.   Listen as Carol the Coach asks Tami VerHelst, Chief Relationship Officer about the drop-in discussion and support groups, podcasts, blogs, daily inspirations that Seeking Integrity offers to promote healing.

Ross Rosenberg has spent his life helping clients and clinicians understand how trauma attachment causes Self-Love Deficit Disorder. Tonight he will be talking about his theories that represents the most modern and scientifically up-to-date thinking about codependency.  "Codependency,” is re-defined and re-conceptualized into “Self-Love Deficit Disorder (SLDD)™," which is a trauma, core shame, pathological loneliness, and addiction disorder. The  primary focus of tonights dialogue is on Rosenberg’s Ten Stage Self-Love Recovery Treatment Model, and how through it, a person transitions from being Self-Love Deficient to Self-Love Abundant – The “codependency cure.” If you battle with codependency, this show will provide information about how to resolve a person’s life-time battle with SLDD, and it will also facilitate hope and optimism for both the codependent, SLD, and/or trauma practitioner, or the person struggling with these conditions.

Recovery resources are fully online and this is great news for many reasons. Whether you’re anxious about leaving the house due to the current pandemic or too shy to walk in the door of a meeting or professional’s office, online help is a convenient option. In this episode, sex addiction specialist Forest Benedict shares from his experience as a fully online therapist and coach. We will discuss the benefits and limitations of working recovery online and how this modality can strengthen, connect, and inspire those who participate use it. Listeners will also learn how they can get help if they want to self-isolate due to the Coronavirus. Forest will share about his current Life After Lust program in California and the upcoming worldwide launch of his Heroes in Recovery coaching program. You don’t want to miss this relevant and timely conversation.

Tonight Carol the Coach will be interviewing Ken Wells who has written the book, Dare to Be Average:Finding Brilliaance in the Commonplace. He explains how embracing “average” in life impacts the recovery life of an addict? He will explain how to have an open heart and how that impacts "going deep" to assist SA's in finding their brilliance. He believes that you can transform the experience of shame into the personal brilliance of compassion?

MBATT therapists are helping addicts and partners to reduce trauma triggers that interfere in healthy recovery. Carol the Coach will be interviewing Darrin Ford, Founder and Director of TMAATT has been studying years of research that inspired the Mindfulness Academy for Addiction and Trauma Training. Listen to why he believes that it is crucial to working through the chaos and trauma of addiction.

There are all sorts of ways that addicts experience interpersonal betrayal of trauma. Find out how tonight's guest Michael Crocker suggests therapists need to help addicts through the guilt and stop injuring themselves.

It is important for you to understand that you have an addiction, but who are you really? Carol the Coach interviews Rob, who wants to help people understand that he believes that the only way to surrender to one's true self is to surrender to what God wants him to be and when surrender occurs, he is liberated to follow his true legacy. Listen as Rob talks about the importance of understanding the first 3 steps within the 12 steps so that it can be the gateway to alll that you can be!

Tonight, Carol the Coach interviews Eddie Capparucci, who has created a process that he has found very successful in treating and sex addiction. He believes the road to recovery from sexual and ography addiction goes through your childhood. It is the various pain points we suffered as children, adolescents and teenagers that impact our sexual and ography addictions today. And the key to unlocking all of this can be found with the inner child.  He has created the Inner Child Recovery Process for the Treatment of Sexual and ography Addiction to answer the "whys" that plague sex addicts and can empower them into abstinence.

There is research that suggests that 1 out of 6 men have been sexually abused before the age of 18. Many men chose not to disclose and my guest tonight, Dr. Kelli Palfy has written a book Men Too. It is a compilation of Kelly's research as a psychologist and a police officer who identified offending patterns and common grooming techniques that added to perpetration. She also wants the public to know why abused children and teens get misdiagnosed as ADD, or ODD. Listen as she encourages the listener to break the silence to increase his mental health.

Carol the Coach interviews Scott Brassart, who has written Sex and Addiction Healing and Recovery: A Daily Reader for Sex and Addicts. He believes this book will help addicts in recovery, because it shares the daily nuggets of information and wisdom that can guide you towards making healthy choices. He feels that there has been very little written to guide addicts on a daily basis that is relevant to the changing times of and sex addiction. Listen as he shares what you might need the most in your own journey through the process of recovery.